I hope to see your blog of Hope and Joy today!!

“I hope to see your blog of Hope and Joy today!!”

The above sentence came through my email this morning so I clocked out at work to take a minute and blog.

I have lived so much of my life trying desperately to be what everyone

wanted me to be that I have never known who I really am.  There is no possible way to please everyone because everyone has a different opinion of what I should be.

This weekend I bumped into many people from my past.  As I braced myself and looked deep into their eyes I……………. felt no guilt.

For the first time in my life it did not matter what they thought of me.

It matters what I think of me and what God thinks of me.

There is HOPE and JOY in finding peace with God.

Do I have peace with all the people in my life – probably not.  But I am no longer going to hunt them down and beg them to forgive me I am going to live my life to the fullest.

I have asked God to forgive me and I have forgiven myself.

I am also doing my best to not repeat the mistakes I have made before.

Jesus told Mary Magdalene to “go and sin no more”……I’m trying.

Thank you for letting me walk this journey with all of you –

My prayer is always that you can find

HOPE and JOY

in this blog.